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DRPS : Course Catalogue : Deanery of Clinical Sciences : Surgical Sciences

Postgraduate Course: Locomotor System (SURG11003)

Course Outline
SchoolDeanery of Clinical Sciences CollegeCollege of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)
Course typeOnline Distance Learning AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis course presents a number of example cases in the acute trauma setting, covering ATLS principles, and management of trauma and orthopaedic patients
Course description Through self-directed learning, online content will deliver key concepts relating to the locomotor system. Students will be required to work through weekly online activities, including discussion boards, and formative MCQ quizzes
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Demonstrate a critical understanding of the relevant basic scientific principles for common surgical procedures relating to diseases of the locomotor system, and treatment of patients with multiple injuries
  2. Apply the core principles of primary and secondary patient assessment, determine priorities in trauma patients, and recommend care during the primary and secondary surveys
  3. Differentiate the management and assessment of paediatric versus adult patients
  4. Communicate with peers, more senior colleagues and specialists
  5. Apply critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis to issues which are informed by developments at the forefront of orthopaedic surgery
Reading List
TBC
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Within the work to be undertaken this course will provide participants with the opportunity to develop or further develop key graduate attributes:
In-depth knowledge of specialist discipline
Develop new understanding by exercising critical judgement and challenging knowledge
Be a self-directed learner
Solve problems effectively taking ethical, professional and environmental issues into account
Use information responsibly in a range of contexts
Collaborate with others, capitalising on their different thinking, experience and skills
Communicate (oral, written, online) effectively,
respectful of social and cultural diversity
Application of numeracy
Application of IT
KeywordsOrthopaedic Surgery; Locomotor System; Plastic Surgery
Contacts
Course organiserDr Valentina Ferlito
Tel: 0131 242 6130
Email: Valentina.Ferlito@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Marta Zadzilko
Tel: (0131 6)51 5800
Email: mzadzilk@ed.ac.uk
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